incident-response

incident-response is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS. It costs 18 tokens per session (993 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step process for handling software incidents, meaning unexpected outages, production failures, or data problems. It covers detection, communication, mitigation, resolution, and preventing a repeat.

In plain words
What is it for?
Acknowledging alerts, assessing impact, opening an incident channel, coordinating an Incident Commander, communicating updates, restoring service, and documenting prevention work.
Why use it?
It gives the team a shared response when users are affected, including severity levels, ownership, and status updates. This reduces confusion during high-pressure failures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Acknowledging alerts, assessing impact, opening an incident channel, coordinating an Incident Commander, communicating updates, restoring service, and documenting prevention work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vignesh2027/ai-agent-skills/incident-response
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS --skill incident-response
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 993 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00018 $0.00993
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00496
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00099

Measured 11d ago against content hash 13ae65799a8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

incident-response scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/incident-response/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Incidents are inevitable. How you respond determines whether they are learning opportunities or recurring nightmares. This skill gives you a structured process from first alert to prevention of recurrence.

When to Use

  • When an alert fires indicating user impact
  • When a deployment causes degraded service
  • When you discover a data issue in production
  • After any unplanned outage, even brief

Process

Phase 1: DETECT (0–5 minutes)

Step 1: Acknowledge the alert Acknowledge in your alerting system within 5 minutes. This signals you're on it and stops duplicate escalations.

Step 2: Assess severity

  • P0 — Complete service outage, data loss, security breach. Page everyone.
  • P1 — Significant degradation affecting many users. Page the team.
  • P2 — Partial degradation, workaround exists. Handle during business hours.
  • P3 — Minor issue, users unaffected or workaround obvious. Normal ticket.

Step 3: Declare the incident and open a channel For P0/P1: open an incident channel (#incident-YYYY-MM-DD-brief-description). All communication goes there. Appoint an Incident Commander (IC).

Phase 2: COMMUNICATE (5–15 minutes)

Step 4: Post a status update Within 15 minutes of detection, post to the status page: "We are investigating reports of [symptom]. We will provide an update in 30 minutes." Do not wait until you have a fix. Users need to know you know.

Step 5: Brief stakeholders Notify: on-call manager, customer-facing teams, affected customers (for P0/P1). Use the incident channel as the single source of truth.

Phase 3: MITIGATE (15 minutes – resolution)

Step 6: Stop the bleeding first Mitigation before diagnosis. Options:

  • Roll back the last deployment
  • Disable the feature flag
  • Scale up capacity
  • Redirect traffic away from the failing component

Don't spend time diagnosing the root cause while users are impacted. Mitigate first.

Step 7: Diagnose Once impact is reduced, find the root cause:

  • What changed recently? (Deployments, config changes, traffic spikes)
  • What do the metrics show? (Error rate, latency, saturation)
  • What do the logs show? (First error, error pattern, affected user IDs)
  • What do the traces show? (Where in the call chain is the failure?)

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 105 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 13ae65799a8e

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incident-response is a skill published in the GitHub repository vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS (2 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 993 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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